AaS! 46: How to describe astronomy to the blind?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
4.8 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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How can the night sky be described to someone who can’t see it? What’s it like to do astronomy? What kind of feelings come into play? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how the show works, but let's feel it out one more time. You go online to Twitter, Facebook. use the hashtag Ask a Spaceband. Send some questions |
| 0:23.3 | my way. You can send them that way. You can send them another way by just following me on |
| 0:28.2 | Twitter or Facebook. I'm at Paul Matt Sutter because that's my name. Another way is to visit the website |
| 0:33.9 | askaspaceman.com. Or you can just email Ask a a spaceman at gmail.com. So many ways to ask |
| 0:41.1 | so many questions. And we have one simple goal with a show. Oh, visit the YouTube channel. |
| 0:47.6 | YouTube.com slash C. slash Paul Matt Sutter. How could I forget? But we have so we have one simple |
| 0:53.0 | goal. Complete knowledge of time and space. And on simple goal, complete knowledge of time and space. |
| 0:55.4 | And on the road to complete knowledge of time and space is a very intriguing question I received |
| 1:01.9 | via email from Tom. |
| 1:05.2 | He asked, how would you describe the night sky to the blind? |
| 1:11.2 | How would you describe astronomy to the blind? |
| 1:16.1 | And I was struck by this question. |
| 1:21.4 | It's an incredibly intriguing question to me. |
| 1:25.7 | And so I wanted to answer it on this show. So first, |
| 1:30.6 | why should we talk about this? Well, well, well, first, first, first, first, an apology, |
| 1:37.9 | two apologies. If I apologize if there are better resources available like online. |
| 1:45.1 | I purposely didn't check, which is actually pretty part for the course for me. |
| 1:52.3 | But in this, I know for sure that someone's written about this, someone's talked about this, |
| 1:58.0 | someone's developed, lots of people have developed. |
| 2:00.5 | And after the show was done, I'm going to dig up some references. |
| 2:03.8 | I'm going to put them in the show notes. |
| 2:05.0 | But I purposely didn't do it because I wanted to give my picture. |
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